Clague, Christopher K.

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CLAGUE, Christopher K.

CLAGUE, Christopher K. American, b. 1938. Genres: Economics. Career: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, instructor in economics, 1965-67; President's Council of Economic Advisers, Washington, DC, senior staff economist, 1967-68; University of Maryland at College Park, assistant professor, 1968-71, associate professor, 1971-79, professor of economics, 1979-, department head, 1980-82, director of research for Project on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, 1990-. Visiting professor at Boston University's Center for Latin American Development Studies, 1974-75, University of California, Berkeley, 1983, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1990, and University of Nottingham, 1990. National Bureau of Economic Research, member of executive committee, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, 1983-89; conducted field work in Peru, 1966, 1969, and 1971, and Haiti, 1968 and 1969; consultant to World Bank and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Publications: (with R. Rotberg) Haiti: The Politics of Squalor, 1971; (with R. Betancourt) Capital Utilization: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, 1981; (ed. with G. C. Rausser and contrib.) The Emergence of Market Economies in Eastern Europe, 1992. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to economic journals. Address: Department of Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.